I plan on staying at, the SpringHill Suites in College Park, Ga. It's on Convention Center Concourse in walking distance of the Georgia International Convention Center. And I was wondering if it is a safe area...
first of all, the hotel you're staying at isn't really in college park, it's in a convention center complex that you use the skytrain to get to from the airport, so i wouldn't worry about crime. it's rated super-good on tripadvisor.
second of all, college park is actually pretty nice. it's very quiet, it has tons of historic homes and it has a nice downtown area with restaurants and such. college park used to be kind of rough back in the 80s but it was never a ghetto or anything. the private school woodward academy, where a lot of ritzy folks send their kids, is right in downtown college park, and the campus is laid out with multiple buildings. i don't think they'd send their kids to a place they didn't think was safe.
a lot of people don't like college park because there are a lot of black people that live there. people come up with BS excuses though like "high crime", "urban", "thug", etc. to describe areas with black people. it's really ignorant.
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first of all, the hotel you're staying at isn't really in college park, it's in a convention center complex that you use the skytrain to get to from the airport, so i wouldn't worry about crime. it's rated super-good on tripadvisor.
second of all, college park is actually pretty nice. it's very quiet, it has tons of historic homes and it has a nice downtown area with restaurants and such. college park used to be kind of rough back in the 80s but it was never a ghetto or anything. the private school woodward academy, where a lot of ritzy folks send their kids, is right in downtown college park, and the campus is laid out with multiple buildings. i don't think they'd send their kids to a place they didn't think was safe.
a lot of people don't like college park because there are a lot of black people that live there. people come up with BS excuses though like "high crime", "urban", "thug", etc. to describe areas with black people. it's really ignorant.
College Park in general is not a safe city. It's often in the news.
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